Mar 21, 2011

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The Best in Email - The 2011 Readers' Choice Awards

Nominate Your Favorite Email Programs, Services and Innovations — The 2011 Readers' Choice AwardsLucta? Pugilatus? It's not quite clear what happened in Rome 186 BC, three years after the Aetolian League had been crushed under consul Marcus Fulvius Nobilior. Livy tells of exceptional triumphal celebrations, though, with lion hunts, Greek actors and — for the first time in Roman history — athletes.
Now, Livy does not reveal the winners in the boxing (pugilatus) or maybe wrestling (lucta) competitions — but I can reveal this year's best email products, the winners in the 2011 Readers' Choice Awards:
›› From best free email service to the top email innovation of 2010: here are the winners of the 2011 Readers' Choice Awards.


Spring has Sprung - Free IncrediMail Letter and E-Card

Spring has Sprung - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-CardWhen day and night are equal, the day is some 15 minutes longer. The sun rises when its first rays appear on the horizon, not when its center becomes visible, and it sets only when the top tip disappears; adding to that, the earth's atmosphere bends the light so you already see the sun when it is actually below the horizon assuming a straight line of sight.
In any event, day and night have been equally long, the sun has crossed the equator — and, in the Northern Hemisphere, spring has sprung:
›› Awake your computer from hibernation and announce with the help of this IncrediMail letter, eggs and a curious chick: Spring has sprung! (IncrediMail)


How to Restore or Import Your Mac OS X Mail Address Book from a Backup Copy

Sweet; and sour!
This pomelo is delicious. I'm not so convinced of its nutritional value, though: it seems I expend more energy wrestling the flesh from their shells than I could ever hope to restore from the laboriously acquired treat; not to mention peeling the miles-thick rind (which is great candied or in marmalade, of course)...
Speaking of restoring, you hope to regain miles and miles of Mac OS X Mail contacts? With a backup, that's not so laborious:
›› Syncing went wrong? Contacts are lost? Not, of course, if you have created a backup copy of your Mac OS X Mail address book. Here's how to bring back your contacts, or import an archive to a different account or computer.


How to Moderate and Delete Google Buzz Comments to Your Post

"The animal needing something knows how much it needs," wrote Democritus some 2,500 years ago. Unfortunately, the "laughing philosopher"'s works have come to us only as fragments. We do know how Democritus continued this quip, though: "The human who needs something, however, does not."
Now, it seems somebody did not know how much commenting your Buzz post needed? Time for a little moderation:
›› Wish a comment to one of your Google Buzz posts was not there, or want to report a comment as spam? Here's how to moderate comments to your messages in Gmail and Buzz mobile.


 


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